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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—"Nine-Year-Old’s Alleged Killer Found Hanged in Jail Cell"; "Unsolved Mystery: How Will Bag Fee Work With Self-Checkout?"; and tweets galore!
Greetings all. LL hopes all LLDers [...]

This is going to be an especially tough season for the homeless. The number of homeless families jumped in recent months. For the week of Nov. 9 to Nov. 15, there were 429 families on the waiting list for services. Ten families who had applied for shelter returned to seek services again. Of the nearly [...]

Some turkeys have all of the luck
(like those who are born as a duck)
Just one gets a pardon
Out in the rose garden
For years and years longer, he'll cluck
Some other events of past days:
Abe Pollin got posthumous praise
Something 'bout Wizards
What's that? Turkey gizzards!
Excuse my post-prandial haze...

Morning, all (I've given up the Mike Riggs drawl; you can find it over on his Arts Desk roundups). Are you still in a food coma? Well, get up! Get over it! It's Black Friday!
Today is the day when people get trampled to death at retail outlets in America in the rush to save money [...]

For the fails-to-excite-the-money-people print version of Washington City Paper, I wrote yet again about the 1954 City Championship football game, which featured St. John's vs. a team of All-Stars from the District's public high schools. That was the first integrated schoolboy game in D.C. history.
A nutshell background: Despite the recent Brown vs. the Board of [...]

Welcome to what stands to be the least-read City Desk post of all time! Above, please find a photo of my brother-in-law. As you can see, the lessons on how to dress himself are going well! More important, that man can fry a turkey. By the time you read this, I will be at his [...]

Josue Pena, the man accused of firing the shot that killed nine-year-old Oscar Fuentes, was found hanging in his cell at the D.C. Jail and has died, police have confirmed.
Pena, 26, had been charged with first-degree murder, allegedly shooting blindly through the door of a Columbia Heights apartment, striking young Fuentes on the other side. [...]

In a few days, retired judge Stanley Sporkin will issue his report on the discovery abuses in the Pershing Park cases. It seems unlikely that he will find out just who destroyed the running resume and erased key portions of the radio communications on Sept. 27, 2002. So how will authorities get to the bottom [...]

Parade, 1990

Demolition, 1995
In the spirit of giving thanks I suppose I owe Abe Pollin some. I had a darkroom on 9th Street NW in the late 80s to mid-90s at the princely sum of $231 a month, a location I was quickly priced out of with the success of all the redevelopment. But the Gallery [...]

The District of Columbia is about a month away from having to pay five cents a pop for its plastic bags, and some details are yet to be worked out.
Such as: What about the self-checkout facilities increasingly populating city supermarkets—how are they going to work with the bag fee? After all, there's no human to [...]

As much local politics as humanly possible. Send your tips, releases, stories, events, etc. to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com. And get LL Daily sent straight to your inbox every morning!
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—"Abe Pollin Dies at 85"; "Pershing Park Case: Will Sporkin Report Be a Whitewash?"; "Judge Rules Against Fired Teachers"; "Rhee Ex Is 'America's Next Great [...]

The guy who once married Ms. Rhee
Is lucky as pundits can be
T'was recently crowned
The best one around
According to public decree
So here is a question to weigh:
Which one of these earns the most pay?
Ms. Rhee as a chick
Or WaPo's new pick
Or dude who blocked 18th and K

Doctors say Abe Pollin had been slowly dying from something called corticobasal degeneration. But you don't need to be an MD to know that Bullets Fever kept him alive.
For years, the owner has been running on fumes. When he'd show up very occasionally to team functions, he'd look so frail it seemed certain he'd be [...]

Good morning, readers. Sad news: Abe Pollin has died.
But what I really want to talk about is how today is the Busiest Travel Day of the Year. You may never have heard this, even though it happens every year. It means lots and lots of people will be going from one undisclosed location to another [...]

Abe Pollin brought big buildings (Cap Centre, Verizon Center) and people (Elvis Presley, Muhammad Ali) and teams (Washington Commandos, anyone?) to this area.
But he also brought hope.
"He was a businessman, that's what the accolades were for," said Tiffany Alston, an attorney in Upper Marlboro, upon hearing of Pollin's death. "But looking back now, as an [...]